The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-06
LOCAL nnEvITIEs.


cused OF lighting. f
THE Crescent mill started up sgain yes
teIday morning after suspension for part
Of day on account Of, a shortage Of gas.
The employees Of the Riverside blast fur.
mace, ut Steubenville, received an advance
Of 8 percent In their wages on New Years.
a MAN whose name could not DO learned
was badly burned at one Of the Benwood
steel plants. The particulars Of the acct
dent could not DO learned.
THE Council COMMITTEES on Markets
met last night and audited the monthly
hill1. They also agreed to recommend 10
Council that the rent oil the stalls In the
Centre market be equallzed. =,
THE forge department Of the Denwood
iron works was idle Tuesday, owing to
an insu lliclent supply Of coal. The black
diamonds cannot be mined rapidly enough
to keep the mill in operation.
OSLr the tenpenny machines will DO In
operation at the Belmont mill this morn.
ing, and they will run out OF steel by 10
o'clock this forenoon, after which time
the whole factory will be idle.
Mrs. MARY NJ. RuHL, who lived with
her Hon August on Fifteenth street, died
suddenly at her home night before last.
She WAS the mother Of Mrs. John Ebbert,
the well.krown Top mill mailer. ~
soME OF the Bollaire oports arc backing
tho Republican candidates for Mayor and
Chief Of Police OF Wheeling heavily,
They seem to regard the election as o sort
OF Observation-Disclosures Independent.
THE latest bulletin Of patents Issued con
tsins the following, West Virginia-Ben,
wood-J. NJ. Bryant, asaignor to 2. and
@. Altmeyer, nail.plste feeder. Parkers
burg-ChRs, F. Sleight and II. Y. Smith
rotary engine.
A GENTLEMAN who CHANGED TO DO ou
the National road Saturday night about
II 80 O'Clock deecribes q peculiarly vivit
meteor which dsrted ont Of the eastern
sky and seemed 10 hurst over the hill just
back Of the Top mill. it
The Sisters in charge OF the NORTH
Wheeling Hospital and Orphans Home
desire to return thanks to W. o. MCUlug
keyfor substantial supply OF oysters fol
New Years dinner OF the Sisters and TIT
children in their care. 4. Z. x j.
The dissatisfied wheelmen at the River
|a!do steel plant struck at midnight Mon
day for an ADVANCE and laid their griev
ances before Manager y. ]. Hearne, who
ordered the works shut down ior repair
and to consider the demand. ~
CLERK Hook Yesterday admitted to re-
cord deed made January !, 1887, by Alb
SALON ). Iidgsley and wife, to Annie E
Harris, i'll considerstioa. a. $500, fol
thirty-six acres OF land in 0hi6 county
part OF the "Moreland Home farm" I !
|. Tue O., L. & w. has two pile drivers
at work on the Martins Ferry extension
one working north toward Wheeling
creek and the other working under the G.
4 P. depot. The frame Of the bridge ovcl
Wheeling creek is building st Uhrichs.
vile. 80 VA rsil r' f.i
WHEELING TENT No. a5 I. o. Of Re6hs
bites met last night and installed the fol
lowing officers: P. @. R., Milt Donly; q
| r, John Turner; D. r., George z
Rodgers; Shepherd, Lemuel Hill; o., An
drew Weekly; Secretary, r. Beam; Fl
nancial Secretary, D. White; Treasurer
A. J. McElroy;1. g., Daniel Morgan; o
g., E. Douly. :
| The Wheeling Island Chautauqua Cir:
| Gle met Tuesday evening at the home O.
Miss Kate Hail.. Prominent and pleasing
features in the order Of exercises, were, 40
original poem by Mr.. D. NJ. Adams, en-
titled "Anarch's Dream on New Years
Eve" and recitation in English history
conducted by Mrs. NJ. L. Etzler and Mis-
| Lyde Thomas. {.
Mr.. P. L. KIMBERLY takes exception ia
the article in yesterdays NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
concerning the meeting Of the Board OF
Directors OF the State Fair Association,
and denies that he desired any changes.
Ir. Kimberly is mistaken in supposing
the artiolo vas based on information fur.
nished by a member o. the Board. The
reporter who wrote it got his inprepsions
IRON, hearing Mr.. Kimberly's speech. Z
Tun BsllaiTs Independent says: The in
timation that an imppStor is collecting
money for the widows Of tho men killed
by the explosion Of a Baltimore & Ohio
engine, wss well founded. The rascal
succeeded in gathering considerable sum
OF money here and, In the towns aDovc,
and pocketed it all, no doubt, az there
wGs DO occasion for his begging. Yester-
day gentleman who had given him a
dollar happened to ,usss him on train
and made him hand it back.
ALFHA Lopez K. OF Il. No. 424, on
DecemberSlst elected the following named
officers to serve Tor the ensuing term Of
six months: Dictator, John A. Xorn ;
Vice Dictator, NJ. L. Wright; Assistant
Dictstor, a. S. T. .Charnock; Reporter,
Joseph Hall, Financial Reporter, e. w.
Dunawayj Treasurer, 3. n, Darrah :
Chaplain, George Hopwood; Guide, Fred
s. Bssnett; Guardian, Charley a. Ster-
ling; Sentinel, Philip Winter; Truatees.
Joseph a. Metcalf, John Brown and J.
| D. McFadden, j.; Organist, George Hop.
woodi P. D., William Graham, jr.i "A
public yinItgllation will be held at the
lodge room next Friday evening, to which
all are invited. - s''. =. 81